SPORTS: Go Hawks (or as one clever punny sign said -- we Kane, we Shaw, we Crawford)! It's also baseball season, although the emotion that the Cubs elicit is more of a "take off their helmet/cap, and put 'em in a headlock and rub their heads and say 'aw ... that's okay ... you kids just keep on tryin' ... winnin' isn't everything when you have a 'hood real estate revitalization plan on which to focus'" (although, as the players appear to be my twice my size everywhere except in waist line, I probably won't act on that elicited emotion). Rumor has it there's also a second baseball team somewhere in this town, should anyone know anything about that ...
SUMMER: Sure the beaches have been open for the past two weekends ... and I recognize that the calendar may say summer but the weather doesn't seem to be cooperating quite yet ... but this weekend always kicks off true summer in Chitown with festival season! With a single red line trip, one can get TWO competing arts festivals on or around Wells Street, one (slightly messy) RIB FEST a few stops north and one bi-polar MidsommarFest in Andersonville (it's very Swedish in the AM, and very drunken bacchanalia as the day progresses).
PERENNIAL CLASSICS: Some small talk in this town is always relevant -- feel free to pick from political corruption (Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, anyone?) or school closing controversy (a favorite filled with accusations of classism and racism) or kid gangbangers shooting kid gangbangers (I swear a white supremacist group is really in control of all gangs, and they are sitting back and pulling the strings as a minority generation simply annihilates itself).
So anyway ... about those Hawks ...
SMART AND LITERARY PUNNY FANS:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ct-blackhawks-kings049-20130602,0,6400631.photo
CELEBRATING 15 YEARS (I JUST REMEMBER THE FUNNEL CAKE INCIDENT OF '11):
http://www.ribfest-chicago.com/
FAMILY PLANNING FOR WHEN MOMMY AND DADDY GO TO PRISON:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/20609122-418/feds-sentence-jesse-jackson-jr-to-4-years-sandi-to-18-months.html
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